1722  Dover settled by John Jackson of Flushing, N.Y. who established a Forge.

1750  General William Winds purchases 275-acres at today's Salem Village area.

1753  Moses Hurd came from Dover, N.H. to manage Jackson's Forge.

1758  Village adopts the name "Old Tye" after Gen. Wind's Ft. Ticonderoga victory.

1798  First General Store opened along what is today Clinton Street.

1799  Village begins to adopt the name "Dover" in reference to the Hurd Estate.

1813  First physician, Dr. Ira Crittendon, moves in near Gen. Winds estate.

1817 Joseph Blackwell & Henry McFarlan foreclose on the Dover Iron Works. 

1820  First Post Office established in Dover.

1831  Morris Canal is completed and boat traffic begins through Dover.

1848  Railroad finally arrives in Dover connecting to points east only.

1850  First Opera House established in Dover on Sussex St. (Moller Opera House)

1869  Dover Incorporated as a town, breaks away from Randolph Twp.

1869  First newspaper, Dover Enterprise established, followed by Iron Era, Dover Index.

1880 Second Opera House established by Wm Baker as a vaudeville playhouse.

1889  First electric lights turn on in Dover.

1897  German immigrant Paul Guenther establishes world leading silk stocking factory.

1900  Dover becomes a major business center for western Morris County.

1904  New Jersey's first trolley car service established in Dover.

1906  First major vaudeville theater established by Wm Baker called the Baker Theatre.

1910  First automobiles begin to arrive in Dover.

1911  Joh Hurd donates Hurd Park to the citizens of Dover so the Hurd name lives forever

1913  Playhouse Theater, another major vaudeville theater opens on Morris Street.

1916  Dover General Hospital is established on Ann Street.

1922  Dough Boy Statue erected at Hurd Park.

1933  Auto racing began at the Dover Speedway.

1934  Dover Little Theater is established.

1950  Dover Iron plant is closed, longest continuous buiness 1745-1950, in Dover history.

1956  Dover Shopping Center, the first "in-town" shopping center in America, opens.

1957  Dover Drive-In Theater opens becoming the first wireless speaker system in America.

1970  Begins the decline in Dover because of nearby Shopping Malls construction: Playhouse Theater torn down, old Woolworth's Dept. store torn down, Dutton Hotel closes, National Union Bank merges with bank from Rutherford, Baker Theater closes, Dover Shopping Center loses major retail businesses to the Rockaway Townsquare Mall.

1989  The Daily Advance ceased publications.